Photoacoustic tomography extracted from speckle noise in acoustically inhomogeneous tissue

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 18061-18067

  Wu, Dan ^a   Tao, Chao ^a   Liu, Xiaojun ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ACOUSTICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; GREEN'S FUNCTION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SPECKLE;

EXTRACTING INFORMATION; HOMOGENEOUS TISSUES; INHOMOGENEOUS TISSUES; ITS APPLICATIONS; MEDIUM COMPLEXITY; PHOTOACOUSTIC DETECTION; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE;

TISSUE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICES; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; PHOTOACOUSTICS; PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84880949405     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.018061     Document Type: Article

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